LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 306, 1 June 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The annual meeting of the Gisborne Licensing Bench takes place this morning. News by the last mail states that Mr Stead, of the Pall Mall Gazette, has been interesting himself In Mr Rees’ scheme, but there la no further hope for it.

At the Union Literary Society's meeting on Thursday evening next, the question will be debated whether a European war, involving England, would injuriously affect New Zealand. The debate will be opened by Messrs Mann and Crawford.

There is a good prospect now for malting purchases in the drapery line. Mr Moore notifies that he will commence his annual cheap sale of drapery on Tuesday next.

The annual stock-taking sale in Messrs Graham, Pitt and Bennett’s drapery department occurs during this month, commencing from to-day, when every article will be offered at cost price for cash. The genuineness of these sales is well known, and it may also be well to bear in mind that “ cash " is the magic power which may procure the special bargains. The remnant table is one of the features of the sale.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Thursday last (before Messrs W. H. Tucker and O. O. Lucas, J.P’s.), judgments were given for plaintiffs in the following cases :— Nolan and Skeet v, S. 0. Caulton, claim £7 15s fid, and coats Ils. Wingate Burns and Co. v. J. Maher, claim £l6 17s 8d and costs £2 la. Judgment summons H. Cannon v. P. Maher, claim £l, Defendant was ordared to pay the amount forthwith, or in default 48 hours imprisonment, Common Shelton and Co. v. Frank Morphy, claim £lO 7l lOd, Ordered to pay ths amount claimed In two instalments of £4 and £6 7i 10d, the last payment to be made on or before the 11th July next. A paragraph was clipped from our last Imttfssaion and posted on Mr W, Parnell’s verandah post, set off with ths heading " To the croaliew ot the corner, 11 The Standard, however, publishes thia morning as happy as a spring poet before he hqs tried to get his inspirations into print, Mr J. Carroll, M.H.8., has received replies of a moat favorable pharaeter in regard to the formation of a Licensed Interpreters l Assostation, and it is said that all that ta now required to bring it to a suooesafql issue is the earnest and combined action of the licensed interpreters themselves, Mr J. Brooking has undertaken the duties ot Treasurer tor the time being, Mr D. Johnston, Collector of Customs, left tor South last night, having obtained a well earned have of absence for a month. Mr Carter, at Napier, arrived yesterday morning, to occupy Mr Johnston’s place' until hie return,

Mr E. W, Pearson, agent tor Moesta Cogswell and Harrison (ggn, rifle and revolver makers) was a tlitcugh passenger by last night’s steamer.

Mr Robert Wallace, Professor of Agriculture in the Edinburgh University, was a passenger by the R.M.s. Orizaba. Mr Wallace intends to make a tour of Australis and New Zealand for the purpose of investigating the characteristics of agriculture in the colonies.

An important sale of 4840 acres of land in the Wanganui Harbour Board’s Endowment Block, in Pohangina District, Qtoua County, is announced by the Commissioner of Crown Lands. The deferred payment sections m uat be applied for by Tuesday, Igth, June, at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington, and the cash sections will be submitted at auction at Wanganui, on the Sth July. The London Daily News gives currency to a report that Sir George Grey intends going Home, securing a seat in the House of Commons, and then devoting the remainder of hie life to the advocacy of the Home Rule cause.

There was much chafing last flight at the action of the postal authorities in sending the English mail by the s.s, Australia, The mail did not get in in time to be sorted last night, and there was increased wrath in consequence.

The Thursday half-holiday in Timaru is in some danger. The Woollen Factory Company, and, following their lead, other manufacturing firms, ask the Borough Council to exempt them from the operation of the local order changing the Saturday half holiday from Saturday to Thursday, as breaking the work in the middle pt the week is a Source of loss, Other business people petition that it any exemption is allowed it will only be in favor of steam users. The Mayor thinks he cannot fix two days under 11 The Employment ot Females and Others Act,” The matter is to be further inquired into and brought under the notice of the Member for the Borough, We have received a copy of a pamphlet entitled 11 State Colonisation,’ 1 by the Right Honourable Lord Monkswell, but must defer a study of it until our leisure moments. However, there are two gems which struck ue directly we opened the pamphlet. The first is— 1 ' Funds and personal assistance are urgently required for the purpose of spreading a knowledge of the principles of the National Association throughout the country." The next is mors delightful still“ Mr Micawber was always waiting for something to turn up. But nothing did turn up, and in the old country he was gradually reduced to destitution. In the Colonies he soon became a prosperons gentleman, There are, I believe, plenty ot Micawbers in the world whose ensrgias remain undeveloped in this country. In the Colonies energy and ability must come to the front, Every man has a chancs, ay. many chances, and if his egwtfttions aye not too highly pitched, no one need suffer from the ■ hope deterred that maketh the heart sick.'"

A Wellington telegram of Tuesday states !— It was intimated yesterday morning to the manager of the North British and Hawke's Bay Freezing Company that the steamer lonic would leave at noon. The manager at ones telegraphed to Levin and Co., agents for the Shaw, Savill, &AlbipnCo., “That if the steamer left before taking her intended shipment of 6,500 caroases they would hold the company responsible." At noon an urgent telegram was received from Levin A Ob., ordering the lonic to remain. The lonio was signalled, but steamed away, with only 5000 carcases on board, The steamer Ahurlri was then chartered to give chase. The lonic stopped off the town till the Ahuriri came up. Crowds assembled on the Marine Farads thinking the big steamer had met with another mishap, but after delivering the message the Ahuriri returned to port and the lonic proceeded to Wellington, Tl;e weather was beautifully calm and the sea like a looking glass. The remaining 1500 carcases would have all been shipped by 3 p,m,

In hie trenohant article in the new Contemporary on l r £he Ethics of the Turf,’ Mr Runclman Has some scathing sentences about that most loathsome of all forms of fetish worship, the adoration of the jockey l«■When the lad Robinson won the Si. liegcr, citer his horse had been left at the post, he Was made recipient of the most frantic and silly toadyism that the mind can aonceive | the clever irgingp tp whom he was apprenticed received £1,605 for transferring the little fellow’s services, and he is now a celebrity who probably earns a great deal marc than Professor Qwen pr Mr Walter Besant. The boy who won the Qesarewitoh on Don Juan received £LflOg after the race, and it mirct be remembered that this ch;td had' not left school. Mr Herbert Spencer has not earned £l,OOO by the works that have altered the course of modern thought > the child Martin picked up the amount in a lump, after he had scurried for leas than five minutes on the back of a feather-weight thoroughbred.

The greater portion of the cargo by the s.s. Australia (which arrived last night) was carried on, the lightermen refusing to tender the vessel. The launch Snark took the outward cargo and also brought in as much as she could carry of the imports.

At the Christchurch R.M. Court the election of all the members of the Hallswell Road Board was upset on the ground that the name of one candidate proposed and seconded was omitted from the polling papers, and that by the mistake of the returning officer the return of votes given to the various candidates was wrongly stated. The proceedings were instituted by a defeated candidate. It appeared that the candidate whose name was omitted had arranged with the returning officer that his name should be struck off in case a certain other candidate were proposed.

A Perth telegram states .-—The s.s. Albany, trading between Adelaide and Western Australia, arrived at Albany from Adelaide, having experienced terrible weather on her voyage. Early on Thursday morning she encountered a hurricane, which compelled her to lay-to off Cape Borda for 16 hours. The gale lasted for throe days, during which the wheel-box was washed away, and seven horses, valued at £450, consigned to Allendale and Gibson, killed. On the Albany coming alongside the jetty at King George’s Sound, a lad named Humphries, whilst watching the vessel from the jetty, lost his balance and fell in and sank immediately. A bystander whose name is unknown, plunged in after him and brought him to the surface. The lad was bleeding from a deep gash in the head, caused by striking part of the jetty. The boy who was seriously injured, was taken to the hospital.

A New York correspondent writes You who read of the crowded houses and the applause and the bouquets, etc., etc., know little of the trials and sufferings of those women who represent the talent and genius of the American and English stage. For two or three weeks Mrs Langtry has been trying to act in a condition of haalth that would have sent nine women out of ten to a lunatic asylum. She is the victim of a terrible oatarrahal affection which makes her life as miserable as miserable can be. One painful operation has succeeded another, ana those ere by no means certain of success. The only pleasant thing connected with her great misfortune is the sympathy of the reporters of the dally papers. They begin ringing her bell at four o’clock In the morning to hear if there is any change In liar symptoms, and they keep it up at intervals of every five minutes till two o’clock in the next morn|ng, Young men from eighteen to twenty-two are usually detailed for this class of business, and the Only thing likely to militate against their professional advancement is their modesty. On being assured that Mrs Langtry is too ill to receive them, they are quite willing to wait in the parlour till she reeovers, if tfle waiter will bring them a good cigar and the morning paper. Mrs Langtry is a very sick woman, qnd although the rumor is abroad that ths was to bs married to Freddy Gebhart two weeks ago, she looks now like anything bqt a brifle. The voyage of the Ruapehu from Home was marked by a series of lively and untoward incidents, In steaming round from London Docks to Plymouth a passenger became insane, and had to be placed under proper restraint in the latter town. In the meantime he had smashed the glass ot the port-light of his cabin, and pitched out every movable article that was small enough. When approaching Teneriffe one qf the blades of the propeller was carried away, making the motion of the vessel jerky and uncomfortable until Capetown was reached Thera the steamer was docked and a spare blade was attached, but in turning round the propeller for the purpose the attendant boat was ■truck by one ot the revolving b'ades and was stove in, there being, however, ample time to attach the separate blade before she sank. The detention lasted four days. A fireman named Berg was overcome with heat apoplexy when in the tropics, but quickly recovered under medical teatment. An hour after leaving Capetown the principal steampine leading from the boilers tq the freezing machinery burst, and the clouds of steam which arose, and ’bs unusual noises in the engineroom, caused a daal of alarm, One of the firemen named Johnson was badly scalded about the head, face, and body, and had to make three attempts before he could get through the steam cloud to the stairway, ultimately falling insensible on one of the upper gratings, He has, however, since recovered from the injuries. The vessel was about ten miles from shore at the time, so that she was in no serious danger from the loss of steam. The remainder of the trip was uneventful.